existential risk
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Sep 29, 2023 by Mustafa Suleyman · across every show →
Everything said about existential risk, oldest first
Sep 29, 2023 negative
Suleyman: Society Should Prioritize Near-Term AI Threats Over Sci-Fi Existential Risk
“There's many more Practical near-term threats to stability, which we should be focused on rather than talking about existential risk and AGI suddenly emerging and exploding and taking over and manipulating us and taking over armies and all of this kind of fear…”
Oct 31, 2023 negative
Hoffman: Debating AI existential risk distracts from immediate safety issues
“By spending too much time debating the existential risk of AI, we actually increase the likelihood that AI will help bring about a dystopian future. The long-term conversation is doing a disservice to the immediate issues that we face.”
Sep 19, 2024 negative
Hoffman: Bad Actors Pose Greater AI Risk Than Existential Scenarios
“One of the reasons why I kind of advocate very strongly against the existential risk, the robots are coming, you know, Terminator movie, et cetera, is because most of the real bad things to focus on are AI in the hands of, you know, kind of bad human beings. W…”